Alternatives to improve urban circulation

Abstract

Road madness, urban chaos, road collapse, etc., these phrases are used almost daily in our national press to describe the state of road traffic in the Metropolitan Area of San José (AMSJO). They are not trite phrases under an exceptional situation but, on the contrary, refer to a fundamental problem that public administrations have avoided dealing with with the seriousness of the case.
Each sentence is a collective claim for the inertia of our governments and our technical society, unable to find effective solutions to deal with the state of crisis that has been reached in our ways, in which road traffic is reaching levels similar to those of a "social epidemic".
While it is true that AMSJO is a metropolis of a developing country, this does not justify the abandonment and lack of clear policies by successive governments for their recovery and modernization. A long-term national plan is needed to define the country's direction for new road infrastructure and traffic safety policies.
Not only does the country not have adequate road infrastructure, but it also does not have adequate transit legislation, except for a law more "to pull in the meantime" than to fulfill its true purpose.